Again, we start with news on Robin van Persie’s injury and rumours are doing the rounds that, with permission from the club’s physiotherapists, the Dutch striker will be flying to Serbia for some ‘alternative treatment’ for his damaged leg.

Indeed, Robin’s is borrowing from the once-injured PSV captain Dario Lazovic’s technique of rubbing placenta fluid onto the damaged area to speed up his recovery.

Excuse me while I hurl.

I was never one for the blood-and-gore scenes on medical shows. While it sounds like something I’d rather pass on, apparently this will speed up the damaged ligament’s healing process. Sounds like something along the lines of stem-cell-related thinking, but if it works, it works.

One thing that hasn’t been reported on consistently is where exactly this placenta comes from. The Guardian and The Times say it’s human, but others are saying it’s horse, or even cow. I’ve personally gone with the cow, wrong as it may be, as I cannot resist the milk-connotations. Robin’s chocolate leg, being cured by bovine means.

Behold: The Chocolate Milkshake! Surely now, after this technique, that foot will live a charmed scoring life? I can only hope.

In the meantime, the Guardian ponder over Robin van Persie’s in-house replacement and go with Andrey Arshavin, which as you may recall, I personally speculated would happen myself. It’s still more than likely Arsene Wenger will side with Eduardo for the centre forward position, but at least I’m not alone in my thinking.

Sticking with strikers, and Emmanuel Adebayor (remember him?) still cannot get over the whole ‘I’m not liked in certain quarters’ thing and is still talking about ‘that’ match. ‘That’ match, mind you, occurred September 12. That’s two months, five days ago, at time of going to print. Get. Over. It, Mr Adebayor.

Arsene Wenger also took time to speak about Patrick Vieira and his world cup hopes. I’m not reading too much into a possible signing here. Patrick is just worth mentioning.

With regards to site news, you might notice a certain ‘The Players’ link on the menu bar up top, there. It’s a work in progress and all the players will be added to that list every day. I’m thinking at least five a day, to be finished in about a week’s time. Leave your comments and thoughts of a player’s performance on their own personal page!

Last and very much least, the Spanish and British media are kicking up ‘Cesc to leave for 60mil’ stories again, citing a bidding war between Real Madrid and Barcelona ‘vying’ for his signature.

It really is a bore, but I did notice some rag make mention of the Spanish press ‘causing mischief’, before going on about how Cesc will surely be unsettled if Arsenal fail to win a trophy this season, in the same breath.

I can understand the Spanish hacks doing it. There’s an agenda running around there. But what possible incentive would the British media have to perpetuate this story? I think it’s too simplistic to say they have it in for Arsenal (though I know certain journalists definitely do).

Simply put, having a big name star from Spain (or wanted by Spain, ala Ronaldo) comes with a price, that is then exacerbated by the 24/7 news cycle. Gone are the days when you’d hear about your football team once a week in the Sunday collumn of your local rag. Now they have web pages to fill, publish and update. Every hour, on the hour.

A ‘press event’, or ‘reports of reports’ as they’re known in the ABC, give the scoundrels content to fill the pages.

I trust the players see it the same way?

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